📚 The Synthesis of Yoga – Full Structure & Chapter Listing
This work is divided into:
- An Introduction section,
- Four main Parts (each a major Book or Section),
- An Appendix to Part I,
- A partial continuation of Part IV.
Each Part contains several chapters. Here is the structure:
🔹 Introduction – “The Conditions of the Synthesis”
| Ch. No. | Chapter Title |
|---|
| I | Life and Yoga |
| II | The Three Steps of Nature |
| III | The Threefold Life |
| IV | The Systems of Yoga |
| V | The Synthesis of the Systems |
🔹 Part I – The Yoga of Divine Works
| Ch. No. | Chapter Title |
|---|
| I | The Four Aids |
| II | Self-Consecration |
| III | Self-Surrender in Works — The Way of the Gita |
| IV | The Sacrifice, the Triune Path and the Lord of the Sacrifice |
| V | The Ascent of the Sacrifice – 1: The Works of Knowledge — The Psychic Being |
| VI | The Ascent of the Sacrifice – 2: The Works of Love — The Works of Life |
| VII | Standards of Conduct and Spiritual Freedom |
| VIII | The Supreme Will |
| IX | Equality and the Annihilation of Ego |
| X | The Three Modes of Nature |
| XI | The Master of the Work |
| XII | The Divine Work |
| XIII | Appendix to Part I: The Supermind and the Yoga of Works |
🔹 Part II – The Yoga of Integral Knowledge
| Ch. No. | Chapter Title |
|---|
| I | The Object of Knowledge |
| II | The Status of Knowledge |
| III | The Purified Understanding |
| IV | Concentration |
| V | Renunciation |
| VI | The Synthesis of the Disciplines of Knowledge |
| VII | The Release from Subjection to the Body |
| VIII | The Release from the Heart and the Mind |
| IX | The Release from the Ego |
| X | The Realisation of the Cosmic Self |
| XI | The Modes of the Self |
| XII | The Realisation of Sachchidananda |
| XIII | The Difficulties of the Mental Being |
| XIV | The Passive and the Active Brahman |
| XV | The Cosmic Consciousness |
| XVI | Oneness |
| XVII | The Soul and Nature |
| XVIII | The Soul and Its Liberation |
| XIX | The Planes of Our Existence |
| XX | The Lower Triple Purusha |
| XXI | The Ladder of Self-Transcendence |
| XXII | Vijnana or Gnosis |
| XXIII | The Conditions of Attainment to the Gnosis |
| XXIV | Gnosis and Ananda |
| XXV | The Higher and the Lower Knowledge |
| XXVI | Samadhi |
| XXVII | Hathayoga |
| XXVIII | Rajayoga |
🔹 Part III – The Yoga of Divine Love
| Ch. No. | Chapter Title |
|---|
| I | Love and the Triple Path |
| II | The Motives of Devotion |
| III | The Godward Emotions |
| IV | The Way of Devotion |
| V | The Divine Personality |
| VI | The Delight of the Divine |
| VII | The Ananda Brahman |
| VIII | The Mystery of Love |
🔹 Part IV – The Yoga of Self-Perfection
| Ch. No. | Chapter Title |
|---|
| I | The Principle of the Integral Yoga |
| II | The Integral Perfection |
| III | The Psychology of Self-Perfection |
| IV | The Perfection of the Mental Being |
| V | The Instruments of the Spirit |
| VI | Purification — The Lower Mentality |
| VII | Purification — Intelligence and Will |
| VIII | The Liberation of the Spirit |
| IX | The Liberation of the Nature |
| X | The Elements of Perfection |
| XI | The Perfection of Equality |
| XII | The Way of Equality |
| XIII | The Action of Equality |
| XIV | The Power of the Instruments |
| XV | Soul-Force and the Fourfold Personality |
| XVI | The Divine Shakti |
| XVII | The Action of the Divine Shakti |
| XVIII | Faith and Shakti |
| XIX | The Nature of the Supermind |
| XX | The Intuitive Mind |
| XXI | The Gradations of the Supermind |
| XXII | The Supramental Thought and Knowledge |
| XXIII | The Supramental Instruments — Thought-Process |
| XXIV | The Supramental Sense |
| XXV | Towards the Supramental Time Vision |
🔹 Appendix to Part IV:
| Ch. No. | Chapter Title |
|---|
| XXVI | The Supramental Time Consciousness |
🔹 Notes:
- The chapter numbering restarts within each part.
- Some chapters are clearly progressive (e.g., “The Ascent of the Sacrifice – 1” and “– 2”).
- Many chapters build upon earlier traditional yogic systems but expand them through the lens of Integral Yoga.
- The final chapters on the Supermind signal Sri Aurobindo’s original contribution to evolutionary spirituality.
